St. Thomas, Nevada is a ghost town in Clark County, Nevada, United States, near where the Muddy River flows into the Colorado River. St. St. Thomas was purchased by the US Federal Government and abandoned as the waters of Lake Mead submerged the town in the 1930s.

2022年12月15日 · Once the town was flooded higher than 60 feet above the tallest structure, now visitors can roam the ghost remains of a true western town. St. Thomas lies in the northern part of the park near the Overton Arm along the Muddy River, which feeds into Lake Mead.

When you visit St. Thomas Nevada, you may need to use your imagination to see the now vanished town built at the confluence of the Muddy and Virgin Rivers. When Hoover Dam backed up the Colorado and its tributaries forming Lake Mead …

2022年9月23日 · Located within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, St. Thomas is one of the “newer ones” as the twice-abandoned town was submerged under water when the Hoover Dam was built and then appeared once the water levels started to drop. Click here to view other Ghost Towns in Nevada.

2022年3月27日 · St. Thomas is one of the better-known ghost towns in Nevada. With Lake Mead’s creation, rising waters submerged one of Nevada’s oldest established towns under sixty feet of water. Sixty-four years later, lower lake levels have …

2015年2月28日 · From the stone dwellings at Mesa Verde to the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg and here at the ruins of St. Thomas, we learn about those who lived before us. We rely on you to help us safeguard these treasures.

2014年4月2日 · Originally founded in 1865 by Mormon settlers, the tiny town of St. Thomas, Nevada was eventually drowned after the building of the Hoover Dam, but now the dramatically disappearing waters of...

In Clark County, Nevada there is an interesting historic site near the confluence of the Muddy and Virgin Rivers. This site was once St. Thomas, a thriving little city founded by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

2022年5月15日 · But St. Thomas in Nevada is a very different sort of ghost town - a town that was abandoned twice and keeps on reemerging from the lake. St. Thomas is in Clark County in Nevada and is situated where the descriptively named Muddy River flows into the Colorado River.

St. Thomas seems an unlikely name for a Nevada ghost town. It conjures up Caribbean fantasies of powdered sugar beaches, crystalline waters teaming with marine life, and warm balmy breezes.